Singapore

“India has Essentially enrolled the country of Singapore every week nonstop for six years in a row, or the country of Australia every month nonstop for six years in a row to get it to, you know, over a billion users now.”

“So as of now, we are quite close to setting up a fund in Singapore, which will be a small fund and to 10 to twenty million dollars mostly money will be raised from the community and the individuals who are already connected to us.”

“So I always look at India as there are ten million Indians who have the lifestyle of Singaporeans or you know, whatever, 50, 60,000 dollars, and a hundred million Indians probably of middle income like Poland. Then you have a billion Indians who are, of course…”

“So fintech, like UPI and, you know, everything else that India has developed, I think is amazing. We're already integrating with the Singapore and Middle East, and so I think that is a welcome change. It will disrupt Visa, MasterCard, you know, all of these.”

“You know, 40% of our unicorns are technically not Indian at all, right? They are Singaporean or American.”

“Now, if they have gone back, it is not gone out, does not necessarily mean they are gone out forever. Ah, they could well be, ah, be not a brain drain, but they well could be the brain reserve. So if you can improve the conditions here a little more attractive…”

“When India got such independence, all the South Asian countries China, you know even Singapore and others, Thailand, Indonesia, they were at Korea, Japan, they were all at the same level.”

“I have bank accounts in various parts of the world. Again, you have to diversify whether it be in Singapore or Hong Kong or in, in Switzerland you have to diversify your wealth.”

“Well, I think Modi's comes out on top. I would say to begin with it makes it very difficult to find any others, frankly, I would say the leadership in Singapore. Is very, very good. And that's really a team rather than one person. And then leaders in Taiwan al…”

“When we started that emerging markets fund the only markets were open at that time. Were Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore Thailand, and Mexico. That was it. All the other, of course, that time, China was closed. Russia was closed. Most of Latin Amer…”

“So you see Bandra Kula complex. I would argue it's now, you know, that small little bit, but it's in within that it's Singapore level quality of offices and so on.”

“Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, and Singapore and all that, they have a lot of manufacturing and not so much on the fab, but on the backend, we call packaging and so on. But the depth of, you know, engineering requirements, right? Are still not there, right? …”

“All our India revenue still comes straight to India. All the global revenues, ah, hit a Singapore subsidiary, which is a hundred percent owned by the India subsidiary, and that enabled you to go public, ah, in India.”